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Canonical reference record
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Japanese given name

Rena

れぇな

Female-classified given-name records.

れなレナRena
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Reference coverage

Extended source depth

This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.

Distinct recorded spellings59

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows60

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Rena

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingれな

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formレナ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationRena

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Rena. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationれ · な

2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

Audio note: the play button uses Japanese text-to-speech provided by the visitor’s browser/device. It is a convenience preview, not a recorded native-speaker pronunciation or pitch-accent authority.

Meaning by written form

What can Rena mean?

A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Rena”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings9

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings3

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

れぇな

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
れKana characterぇKana characterなKana character
Kana-only spelling

れな

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
れKana characterなKana character
Kana-only spelling

レナ

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
レKana characterナKana character
Kanji spelling

令名

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Kanji spelling

令和

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Kanji spelling

令奈

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

伶名

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

伶奈

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

伶梨

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

伶菜

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

伶那

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

怜名

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 60. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.

How to read these meanings

The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.

Reading profile

How Rena is represented

These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.

Recorded kana readings4

れな · れぇな · レナ · れんあ

Kanji-based spellings57

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters2

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae2

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

Kana-only3

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms1

recorded spelling

2-kanji forms56

recorded spellings

JMnedict classification evidence

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name

れな in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms57

58 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 58

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
れえなRēna77 source rowsfemale 6 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 6 · unspecified 100 source rows
れなRena5758 source rowsfemale 58source rows · distinct forms: female 5700 source rows
れんあRen'a11 source rowfemale 1source rows · distinct forms: female 100 source rows
れぇなRena00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —00 source rows
れなRena00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —00 source rows

Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.

JMnedict source text

Source-supplied text attached to Rena records

JMnedict can attach trans_det text to a name-classification block. This may be a Latin spelling, label or descriptor. It is shown only when it adds information beyond this site’s generated romanization.

Written formSource readingJMnedict source text
れぇなれぇなReena

Meaning boundary: this is text supplied by JMnedict for the associated name-classification block. It is not an inferred kanji meaning, a translation of the written characters as a whole, proof of a person’s preferred Latin spelling, or evidence of popularity.

59 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Rena

This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data57

9–30 strokes observed span

Median total strokes17

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms55

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms2

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

38 of 60 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.

Written forms checked60

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings38

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading21

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set16

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Rena spellings

Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
奈Nara, what?13013008—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
玲sound of jewels990009たま, あきら, あき, りょう +1Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
菜vegetable, side dish, greens8080011ようJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
礼salute, bow, ceremony880005あや, なり, のり, ひろし +1Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
恋romance, in love, yearn for7700010—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
名name, noted, distinguished606006とJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
怜wise660008さと, さとしJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
麗lovely, beautiful, graceful6600019ま, よし, りJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
伶actor550007れJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
那what?505007とも, やすJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
永eternity, long, lengthy404005え, と, のり, ひさ +1Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
令orders, laws, command330005のり, りょう, れJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4

Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.

Exact writing research map

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

These relationships are exact and source-backed. Whole-name readings shown in each card come from JMnedict within the current name class; exact-writing search can surface records from other name classes. Character links open KANJIDIC2-backed kanji pages. Sequence context means the same kanji string occurs contiguously in another recorded written form—it does not prove shared origin or meaning.

Exact written form

れぇな

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Renaれぇな · this page
Characters in order
れKanaぇKanaなKana
Exact written form

れな

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Renaれな · this page
Characters in order
れKanaなKana
Exact written form

レナ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Renaれな
Characters in order
レKanaナKana
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence

The exact sequence 令奈 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 60. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Rena spellings

Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Rena

58 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading れな. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.

れぇな

れぇな · Rena

Katakana レェナMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

れな

れな · Rena

Katakana レナMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

レナ

レナ · Rena

Katakana レナMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

Spelling comparator

Compare Rena forms side by side

Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
れぇなれぇなKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
れなれなKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
レナレナKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
令名れな令 — orders, laws · 名 — name, noted11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
令和れな令 — orders, laws · 和 — harmony, Japanese style13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
令奈れな令 — orders, laws · 奈 — Nara, what?13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伶名れな伶 — actor · 名 — name, noted13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伶奈れな伶 — actor · 奈 — Nara, what?15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伶梨れな伶 — actor · 梨 — pear tree18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伶菜れな伶 — actor · 菜 — vegetable, side dish18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伶那れな伶 — actor · 那 — what?14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
怜名れな怜 — wise · 名 — name, noted14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
怜夏れな怜 — wise · 夏 — summer18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
怜奈れな怜 — wise · 奈 — Nara, what?16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
怜茄れな怜 — wise · 茄 — eggplant16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
怜菜れな怜 — wise · 菜 — vegetable, side dish19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified

The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.

What does Rena mean?

There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.

Related readings

More names beginning with れな

Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Rena

These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.

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Where to go next from Rena

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

Evidence on this page

What each source establishes

JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.

Source boundary

The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.

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